Encoding problems in rails on ruby 1.9.1

Question

I am using rails 2.3.3 and ruby 1.9.1.

I am trying to render a view that includes a partial. In the partial i output a field of a model that is encoded in UTF8. This fai

Answer 1

There seems to be an incompatibility between Ruby 1.9x and the mysql gem with regard to how strings are passed back and forth (specifically the encoding of the strings).

To fix, run

gem install mysql2 

on the server and update the database configuration file to use this gem instead of the previous one.